From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 28569@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28569: 25.2; dired-sort-toggle-or-edit vs. quote marks
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:59:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vak9a53l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efqxhddm.fsf@jidanni.org>
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:18:29 +0800
>
> User sees arguments with embedded spaces on
> (info "(coreutils) Formatting file timestamps")
> and tries one.
>
> He types C-u s which runs the command dired-sort-toggle-or-edit
> and at the prompt gives:
>
> ls switches (must contain -l): -olt --time-style='+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%N %z'
>
> Alas, it turns out if the string contains any kind of quote mark, the
> entire dired screen will go blank, with the error
>
> insert-directory: Listing directory failed but ‘access-file’ worked
Did you read the doc string of dired-listing-switches? It explains
how to specify long options that include whitespace. (Hint: Dired is
not a shell, so shell-style quoting is not necessarily appropriate.)
Oh, I see that Emacs 25.2 doesn't yet have that bit in the doc string.
Well, but what will become Emacs 26.1 does. Here's that text, for
your convenience:
Options that include embedded whitespace must be quoted
like this: \"--option=value with spaces\"; you can use
‘combine-and-quote-strings’ to produce the correct quoting of
each option.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-23 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-23 11:18 bug#28569: 25.2; dired-sort-toggle-or-edit vs. quote marks 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-09-23 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-23 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-23 14:17 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-09-23 14:36 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-09-23 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-30 15:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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